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Family History Beginners Board / Up the Balkans maybe with MATHEITBEL??
« on: Monday 17 July 23 08:55 BST (UK) »
Some years ago my DNA results on "My Heritage" came up with me being 9.2% Balkan . The rest of it was pretty "UK standard" or thereabouts. I had no idea of the time period this Balkan bit related to . A few days ago I was rung up by a "My Heritage" salesman trying to sign me up . I declined on the grounds that their DNA description had not helped me much : my father's side of the tree was comparatively small and had lots of "brick walls" . But this was a call to action and I pushed myself to get an Ancestry DNA kit so as to get a different "descriptive take" on it . I have now got 3 months membership but maybe only 2 month by the time the analysis is done. One brick wall is for
a lady called MATHEITBEL who married (I think) JOHN CALLENDAR TAYNTON b1797 London my GGG Grandfather. There are two entries for his wife MATHEITBEL and John who was a SMITH by occupation and the two children mentioned are CHARLES and ALFRED. But is MATHEITBEL a Balkan name ? I have no idea but hopefully the "Ancestry UK" membership will throw up some answers. It is clearly written twice and does not appear to look like a transcription error.
a lady called MATHEITBEL who married (I think) JOHN CALLENDAR TAYNTON b1797 London my GGG Grandfather. There are two entries for his wife MATHEITBEL and John who was a SMITH by occupation and the two children mentioned are CHARLES and ALFRED. But is MATHEITBEL a Balkan name ? I have no idea but hopefully the "Ancestry UK" membership will throw up some answers. It is clearly written twice and does not appear to look like a transcription error.